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Judge won't release videos of deputies shooting Black man

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - A judge refused Wednesday to release body camera video showing North Carolina deputies shooting and killing a Black man, ruling that making the video public at this stage could ...

Apr 28, 2021

Fed keeps key rate near zero, sees inflation as 'transitory'

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve is keeping its ultra-low interest rate policies in place, a sign that it wants to see more evidence of a strengthening economic recovery before it would consider easin...

Apr 28, 2021

Connecticut is 6th state to end religious vaccine exemption

Connecticut will no longer allow religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools and day care facilities, becoming the sixth state to end that policy. The legislation, signed ...

Apr 28, 2021

Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wednesday of cancer, his family sa...

Apr 28, 2021

AP source: Feds execute warrant at Rudy Giuliani's NYC home

NEW YORK - Federal investigators have executed a search warrant at the Manhattan home of former President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on...

Apr 28, 2021

Britney Spears set to speak in court on her conservatorship

LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears has asked to address the court to talk about the conservatorship that has controlled her life and finances for 13 years, her attorney said Tuesday, and a judge scheduled a...

Apr 28, 2021

Explainer: Capital gains tax hike targets wealthy investors

NEW YORK - After massive U.S. government spending helped send the stock market back to record heights, with even more potentially on the way, the bill may be coming due for the nation's wealthiest inv...

Apr 28, 2021

Chicago stages drive-through Wagner in underground garage

CHICAGO - Amid signs pointing "To Elevator" and advising drivers to "Take Parking Ticket With You," the Rhinemaidens lament the theft of their gold, Siegfried is murdered, and Brnnhilde drives off in ...

Apr 28, 2021

EU lawmakers approve post-Brexit trade treaty

BRUSSELS - European Union leaders, their British counterparts and European businesses expressed hope Wednesday that the final ratification of the post-Brexit trade deal will open a new, positive era o...

Apr 28, 2021

India tops 200,000 dead as virus surge breaks health system

NEW DELHI - India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms ...

Apr 27, 2021